Extinction risk from climate change
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...…than any other species in the history of life on Earth, humans alter their environments by eliminating species and changing ecosystem function, thereby affecting the very future of evolution (Sala et al. 2000; Myers and Knoll 2001; Smith 2003; Thomas et al. 2004a, 2004b; Meyer 2004; Flannery 2006)....
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...Africa and parts of Asia are now the only continents where megafauna remain relatively intact, and the loss of some of these species within this century seems likely (Balmford et al. 2001; Marchant 2001; Gros 2002; Blake and Hedges 2004; Thomas et al. 2004a)....
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...Species interactions are impossible to observe and vastly more difficult to understand when looking back in time....
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...gif" NDATA ITEM> ]> Climate change over the past ∼30 years has produced numerous shifts in the distributions and abundances of specie...
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